A Writer’s Journal

Of the entire Carpathian Series by Miss Feehan, this one would have to be one of my favorites, simply because the hero is much different than the other ones. I’m still not exactly sure how Shea and Jacques ended up in love, but I do know that by the end of the book, I did believe they were good together. It fell short in the ending danger and I expected a slightly bigger bang for everything Jacques had been through.

Shea’s actions were a tiny bit unbelievable, not so much because Jacques was using his ability in mind control, but because he’d only been feeding on the blood or rats and bugs. From reading the other novels in her series, I’d have not expected him to have that much power. Conversely, if he did have that much power from rats and bugs, I’d expect that with a real human blood diet, he wouldn’t have ended where he did in full power.

Good points about this novel. It’s different from the other ones. The danger at the end was still a vampire, but the twist on it was enough to satisfy me, though it could have been done better to get full dramatic impact.

I’d give this novel 3 3/4 stars out of 5. While reading Miss Feehan, it is best to put distance with another author of any genre before continuing on to the next novel as they tend to be formulaic.